It seems the reason Batman: The Dark Knight Rises isn’t out yet in the region is because Joseph Chacra & Sons, the Warner Bros licensee of the region decided to postpone the release. The reasons they’re claiming behind this delay is the fact Ramadan is a slow season for them with 45% drop in sales and that watching movies in Ramadan is haram.

Blogger Moey started an online campaign to try and get them to release the movie on time but they wouldn’t change their minds and even started deleting users comments and negative posts from their Facebook page. Watch Moeys video above and then check out the following links to his blog posts:

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Thanks for sharing Mark, I even spoke to them in Lebanese Arabic. I called their offices, they claimed that Joseph Chacra is out of town and he is the decision maker. which he was spotted 2 days after in Beirut. Lame excuses, I want WB International to know about this immature decision.

You know what’s worse? They actually are playing it in Syria, Lebanon & Jordan on August 16th, which is the 6th day within the last 10 days of Ramadan (al 3ashr al awakher) where muslims actually can’t watch it if they’re practicing.

Him, myself, and all the other Batman fans are waiting for this movie! How the F do you know he, or all the other Batman fans dont help other people? GTFO you troll. Excuse me for saying what I said Mark.

It’s because it discusses the origins of humans, which goes against Islamic beliefs. I really do think the two must never be connected to one another, because it’s just a movie. But that’s not what the MOI thinks. I saw it in Dubai, it was a good movie.

Another big reason it wasn’t released during Ramadan is that movie theaters make a lot of money from the food stands that sell products at higher prices then you would find in a regular market. You can’t serve popcorn when people are fasting and when people aren’t fasting they’re spending time with their families.

Even in Italy they’re releasing it on Aug. 16 and maybe the reason they’re not releasing it is because of the shootings in colorado? or they’re just saving it for the Eid holidays because that’s when they’ll get the most money(the film Brave will be released on Eid,even though it was released earlier in other countries)

Someone taking a cam and recording the movie. It’s in decent quality. To be honest i was actually expecting it to be way way worse.

While the picture quality isn’t as clear as i want it to be, the audio was great. All i’m happy about is i finally finished the story and not worry about the story + joining in the discussion with other people around the world about this fantastic trilogy and of course the ending.

Oh and another thing, it’s mind boggling that Cinescape before ramadan by a few days RE-RELEASED THE DARK KNIGHT, LOL. To top it off, they didn’t even put Batman Begins, way to make people remember part 1 and 2 of the trilogy. *facepalm*

I don’t know why people must bring religion into everything. A day is 24 hours. Surely 2 hour and 35 – 40 minutes won’t hurt now would it?

Cinema’s are still open after fasting, Every channel has it’s own series, malls are open after fasting (even during it).etc

It has nothing to do with Ramathan or Islam. *facepalm* (Yes, i’m muslim) Everyone has their own way of fasting weather they dedicate it to read quran the entire day or just during the fasting or never read Quran at all during Ramathan.

Doesn’t make them worse then the people who do as long as they pray, have strong faith (I don’t know why anyone is a muslim if he/she doesn’t) and fast.

I can see where you are coming from and i totally respect that. The problem is that the movie is a story like many good stories you create passion, feelings and curious-ness for such good stories. Just like good books, you won’t stop reading when you are invested in it, you’ll continue to flip till you finish the story and feel content. The first film came in 2005, the second in 2008 and third in 2012.

You gotta feel for the people who have such passion and drive for the movie and story, regardless if it is real or not. It’s just people invested in the characters + story and the best thing about movies or books that have great stories is after you are done with it you can talk with people all around the world about it, share opinions, thoughts, idea’s and i think here is where it’s most great when you talk with other people about something in common you love weather it’s books, movies, games, sports or anything.

I am coming into this matter in the mindset of a guy who wants to watch the movie because to me everybody is different to in how they spend ramathan and i won’t judge that.

If Kuwait tomorrow banned football, i assure you, you’ll see chaos worse than the one joker made in TDK. I can look at it also from your perspective in seeing football as just a stupid, air filled ball going from one side to the other, whats the point? Nothing, it’s just passionate people that have passion for something, nothing wrong with that.

I forgot to add one little thing. Nobody likes to be spoiled a good story that they invested time + passion on, they want to see it by themselves (or read it incase of books). When half the world finished a great story and the other half didn’t because some elite douchebags don’t want to release it, there is bound to be people mad and pissed off. It’s just natural and people have the right to be.

are you like “worshiping” 24 hours a day? If you are, please remember that we are all not monks here. Furthermore, please remember that you took some time off from your “worshiping” to entertain these comments let alone mine.

I agree that they shouldn’t cut us off based on a presumption that movies are not OK religiously (which is not true), but I find this guy to be, well, irritating to watch, no offense but people stopped using Arabish in 2006! And if I were to vlog something it wouldn’t be to petition the launch of a batman movie!

I was very excited for the launch but was disappointed when it didn’t happen, but I wouldn’t vlog and talk to movie theaters’ managers and to the MARKETING EXEC at Warner Bros! Common give me a break!

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